ADEXL counterpart of simui.menus file

I've updated the solution (which was written by me anyway) to show a variant approach which will work with both ADE L and the ADE XL test editor (and also appear in the RMB menus in the data view assistant, for example).

If you want to alter the pulldown menus in ADE XL, you can do that with a user menu trigger using deRegUserTriggers() (the application is "adexl").

Regards,

Andrew.

 Hello Andrew,

Actually I wanted not add new submenu item to certain pull-down menu, but to add new pull-down menu button.

I used the decision of solution 11286092 in order to  do that in ADE-L in  IC5141 :

load(prependInstallPath("/etc/tools/menus/spectre.menus"))


(sevSetMainWindowPulldownMenus

  `(

    "Session"

    "Setup"

    "Analyses"

    "Variables"

    "Outputs"

    "Simulation"

    "Results"

    "Tools"
   
    "Example"  

    "Help"

    )
)



(sevAddMenuItemLists

  (lambda (session name)

    (case name

      ("Example"
     
        list(

                    hiCreateMenuItem(
                          ?name 'MenuItem_1
                          ?itemText "Item1"
                          ?callback "println('Item1)" ;;; prints Item1 in the CIW
              ;this is only trial function callback
                            )
           
                    hiCreateMenuItem(
                          ?name 'MenuItem_2
                          ?itemText "Item2"
                          ?callback "println('Item2)" ;;; prints Item2 in the CIW
              ;this is only trial function callback
                            )
   
                    hiCreateMenuItem(
                          ?name 'MenuItem_3
                          ?itemText "Item3"
                          ?callback "println('Item3)" ;;; prints Item3 in the CIW
              ;this is only trial function callback
                            )
   
            )
   
       ) ;Example

      ) ; case

    ) ; lambda

  ) ; sevAddMenuItemLists
 

After that I easily converted that for ADE-L in IC6.15 format just taking the new names of the buttons from the simui.menus file:

                "S&ession"
                "Set&up"
                "&Analyses"
                "&Variables"
                "&Outputs"
                "&Simulation"
                "&Results"
                "&Tools"
                "&Help"

Now I want to create my custom  pull-down menu button in ADE-XL. That is why I am asking if there is a counterpart of simui.menus file concerning ADE-XL.

Best regards,

tyanata

tyanata, Did you ever figure out how to do this?

Example code:

menuItem1 = hiCreateMenuItem(  ?name ' menuItem1   ?itemText "Item text 1"  ?callback "yourFunction1")

menuItem2 = hiCreateMenuItem(  ?name ' menuItem2   ?itemText "Item text 2"  ?callback "yourFunction2")

newADEMenu = hiCreatePulldownMenu(  'newADEMenu 

"My Menu"  list( menuItem1 menuItem2  )  "" )

procedure( newADEPostInstallTrigger( cellInfo )  

    hiInsertBannerMenu( hiGetCurrentWindow() newADEMenu hiGetNumMenus( cellInfo->window ))

)

deRegUserTriggers( "adexl" nil nil 'newADEPostInstallTrigger)

Terry

Hi Terry,

Actually you shouldn't use the post-install trigger to add menus. Instead you should use the user menu trigger (the third rather than the fourth argument to deRegUserTriggers) and your trigger function should return a list of pulldown menus. So you'd do something like:

procedure(newADEMenuTrigger(cellInfo)
  list(newADEMenu)
)

deRegUserTriggers("adexl" nil 'newADEMenuTrigger)

that way the Design Editor ("de") takes care of inserting the banner menus - you don't have to do it. If you use the post-install trigger, things can fight with each other, I've found.

Essentially this was the approach I was suggesting in my reply 7 years ago - that pulldown menus are added with deRegUserTriggers.

Regards,

Andrew.

Hi Andrew:

   Thanks for the feedback.  Can you provide a simple example?  I'm struggling a bit, with getting that working.

Terry

I got it working. 

Thanks again for the feedback Andrew.

Terry